This is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of counterfeit banknotes.

Foreword by Sidsel Nachstern: It Cannot Be Erased: Introduction by Bjarte Bruland: The Norwegian Will Die Tonight Introduction by Lawrence Malkin, Author of Kreuger's Men: The Secret Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 Counterfeiter Two Interviews with Moritz Nachastern Glossary

In 1945 Moritz Nachtstern sat down in his Oslo apartment and dictated the story of how he survived the Holocaust. He was one of 771 Jews deported from Norway during the German occupation of 1940–45; he was one of only thirty-four who came back. In Auschwitz he endured horrific conditions and came close to death several times before being selected for the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the isolated Block 19. Here, under the watchful eye of their SS guards, he and other skilled prisoners worked to produce perfect counterfeit British, and later American, banknotes for their captors. All were acutely aware that once they had served their purpose, they would not be allowed to live. Moritz Nachtstern captures the atmosphere inside Block 19, as portrayed in the Oscar-winning film The Counterfeiters, from his arrival in 1943 to the last chaotic days of the Second World War. First published in Norwegian in 1949, this English edition is complemented by a foreword by his daughter Sidsel and essays by Norwegian historian Bjarte Bruland and Lawrence Malkin, author of Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19.